Quotes of: American-history Keyword

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.

Moshe Katsav

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

Ben Casnocha

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Charles Krauthammer

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

Dave Brat

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

Erik Erikson

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

Eduardo Galeano

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George W. S. Trow

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

Mark E. Smith

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Phillip Noyce

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

James Buchan

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

James Martineau

Truly, was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.

Ernst W. Mayr

There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping them downstream, bumping and scraping, until they ...

The Haunted History of New Orleans: Ghosts of the French Quarter

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

[Danny walks in on Derek and Stacey having sex] Danny Vinyard: [whispering] Der. Derek. Stacey: Jesus, Danny! Fuckin' perv. Derek Vinyard: Jesus, Danny. What the fuck are you thinking? Danny Vinyard: Derek, there's a black guy out there breaking into...

American History X

Richardson, however, remains a vital figure in the history of the novel, and of ideology. He initiates a discourse on sexual roles which, in all its ambiguities, is as relevant to today's society as it was in the mid-eighteenth century and which fill...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

I have lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and ...

Sheri S. Tepper